Intel is finally prepared to share full technical specs because of its higher-end Central i9 (Skylake-X) processors, including its flagship Core i9-7980XE, an Extreme Release chip with 18 physical cores and 36 threads.

Up until this aspect, Intel experienced only revealed rates of speed and feeds because of its Primary X-series up through the Primary i9-7900X, a $1,000 10-center/20-thread CPU clocked at 3.3GHz to 4.3GHz (4.5GHz via Turbo Maximum 3.0). Intel shown higher-end processor chip options within its Skylake-X lineup, but only distributed core/thread matters and pricing. We now have details for the complete lineup:

The Primary i9-7980XE includes a 2.6GHz bottom clockspeed. That isn’t terribly interesting, though we’re not real worried about platform clocks since Intel’s potato chips execute a good job of reaching Turbo clocks as needed. For the reason that regard, the Primary i9-7980XE has a Turbo clock of 4.2GHz, and can struck 4.4GHz in single-threaded workloads. Those are both 100MHz less than the utmost we’ve seen on Skylake-X, which is good to see.

The Center i9-7980XE will likewise have 24.75MB of L3 cache, the almost all of any Central X-series chip, along with 44 PCIe lanes and a 165W TDP. Obviously, you need to pay to learn in the profound end–in this circumstance, the price tag is $1,999.

Moving down the list, Intel also crammed in the blanks because of its Core i9-7920X, Primary i9-7940X, and Primary i9-7960X processors. Turbo clocks are fairly constant throughout the complete Primary i9 family, meaning real-world performance will mainly rely upon how well a credit card applicatoin takes good thing about multiple cores and threads.

They are all unlocked processors, indicating buyers can try and thrust clockspeeds greater than Intel’s official technical specs. Having said that, we don’t foresee there being truly a lot of headroom on the Central i9-7980XE, at least set alongside the CPUs that take a seat underneath it.

However the above slip only provides foundation and maximum Turbo Increase clockspeeds. The entire public ‘stock’ clocks for various primary loads are probably more important, and Intel provided us with this data as well. Listed below are the core insert Turbo Raise 2.0 clocks for the entire type of Skylake-X parts, for reference point:

Combining this stand with these glide from Intel, almost all of the bigger end Core i9 parts don’t quit more than 100MHz at any given primary load in comparison to lower tier models. For instance, the 10-center i9-7900X visits 4.0GHz on all cores, as the i9-7980XE and i9-7960X both struck 3.9GHz on up to 12-center workloads. Moving beyond that, which drop of several hundred MHz at 13-16 center loads, and then your i9-7980XE drops your final 100MHz for 17-18 key loads.

The essential aspect here’s that, despite having all 18 cores filled, the i9-7980XE will struck 3.4GHz, with 16-core lots the 7980XE and 7960X can do 3.5/3.6GHz, respectively. That fits or surpasses the stock clockspeeds for AMD’s Threadripper 1950X, that was almost certainly the idea Intel wished to make.

It’ll be interesting to observe how well these sell given that Intel is facing competition in the high-end desktop (HEDT) processor chip space. Intel says its reasoning for offering an 18-core desktop chip is the fact its 10-central Broadwell-E was received “effectively” by fans. Even if were to adopt that at face value, these times Intel is fighting with aggressively costed HEDT processors from AMD.

Consider that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X with 16 cores and 32 threads has just two fewer cores than the Center i9-7980EX, but costs half all the. And up against the 16-main/32-thread Primary i9-7960X ($1,699), it’s still $700 less costly. Not coincidentally, AMD’s Threadripper parts also start this week, on August 10.

Of course, nothing of this issues all that much for video games, at least presently. Despite Intel’s promises that “gamers and lovers will experience up to thirty percent faster extreme mega-tasking for video games over the prior era,” today’s video games simply don’t take full good thing about the cores and threads that are made available from these HEDT potato chips. That thirty percent figure originates from doing numerous other responsibilities in the backdrop, like complex video recording transcoding or 3D making, something most gamers don’t do.

Intel is likely to release the Core i9-7920X on August 28. The Main i9-7940X, Primary i9-7960X, and Main i9-7980XE will be accessible starting Sept 25. Reuters